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Dry scalp when air drying

Dread Maintenance

Have you been using particularly hot water lately? I know from experience that that can help to dry out skin. Maybe use warm but not hot water in the shower. Also, if you wash your dreads in the sink from time to time, it makes it a lot easier to do a cold water rinse, which can really help.

Otherwise all I can think to suggest would be some kind of oils, but there's plenty of others here who are more knowledgeable than myself on that particular subject.

Animal Lover

Alternative Lifestyles and Subcultures

What about fish? I've heard that this systemic issue is an exception in the area of fish meat. Even if technically, though our very being depends on and has depended on our nature as adaptable creatures, utilizing whatever we have, our systems are not optimally designed to process red meats, Such matters as fish and eggs remain. Put into the proper context, the point of loving animals but still being a part of nature by pursuing your own nature seems to stand. Fish are just as alive as anything else, but how come people leave them as an exception?

Really I don't think our body was 'designed' for anything in particular. Whether you believe in evolution or not or whatever the stance of humanity within nature is in your worldview, humans are adaptable creatures. From the very beginning there have been different tribes which consumed different things: some relied only on wheat or corn, some o fruits or berries, some on streams and fishing, and others on following the herds. And all that perhaps before agriculture?
soaring eagle said:

it is not our natural diet and ofcourse u stop anything for 2 days you go throufgh withdrawl u need a year to detox..it is a toxic sun=bstance that u need to clean out of your system in order to regain health

updated by @patrick4: 07/22/15 11:30:14AM

Animal Lover

Alternative Lifestyles and Subcultures

Actually, I have. And I have friends that have tried. While I suppose it can be done for us to buckle through and quit it all together, I did notice effects after about two days. I do a lot of physically strenuous work on a regular basis, and I was noticeably more tired and fatigued. Nothing else seemed to work the same. Other animals eat meat, you keep saying we're just like them. How should we let our moral conscience interrupt our natural diet?

I have nothing against vegetarians/vegans personally at all. In fact, I respect them a lot more than most people for being able to analyze things around them and stand up for their own moral convictions. I personally see no moral conviction in the act of eating meat, though I can agree with many who feel otherwise that the farms and factories which mass produce our meat use inhuman and sadistic methods far too commonly. I'd rather support local butcher shops and ranches, where I know from experience that it's a much more acceptable process of life and death.
Just the natural way of things.
soaring eagle said:

it is not nesacary to eat meat

have you ever trued not eattingmeat i guarantee you will feel better be healthier happier and..smell better

Patrick said:

I love animals, and I love eating meat. Killing for food is the natural way of things. I don't like the things that industrialized meat involves very much, as it seems excess and more impersonal. Animals kill each other for food, and this is simply the way of things. I love my dogs, probably wouldn't eat one of them. But that's my choice, I don't need to eat them. I understand where meat comes from, I've seen some die. I've been fond of cattle that ended up on a dinner plate. Death is not so terrible as it seems to many of us, it's just the way of things. I don't believe in killing where it is not necessary, but I do not function well without meat. If you can't kill a rabbit and eat it, understanding where your meat comes from, then maybe you shouldn't eat it. I appreciate animals, I love nature. But loving does not always mean preserving life at any cost. Life is not the supreme dictum. There is a way of life without its preservation as the ultimate goal. That is the circle, the endless knot, as it were. I eat the animals, one day I'll die and nature will consume me. And I'm fine with that.

Animal Lover

Alternative Lifestyles and Subcultures

I love animals, and I love eating meat. Killing for food is the natural way of things. I don't like the things that industrialized meat involves very much, as it seems excess and more impersonal. Animals kill each other for food, and this is simply the way of things. I love my dogs, probably wouldn't eat one of them. But that's my choice, I don't need to eat them. I understand where meat comes from, I've seen some die. I've been fond of cattle that ended up on a dinner plate. Death is not so terrible as it seems to many of us, it's just the way of things. I don't believe in killing where it is not necessary, but I do not function well without meat. If you can't kill a rabbit and eat it, understanding where your meat comes from, then maybe you shouldn't eat it. I appreciate animals, I love nature. But loving does not always mean preserving life at any cost. Life is not the supreme dictum. There is a way of life without its preservation as the ultimate goal. That is the circle, the endless knot, as it were. I eat the animals, one day I'll die and nature will consume me. And I'm fine with that.

An unusual method?

Dreading Methods

No, far from it... I was wondering about the potential for mold. I'm not sure who he got the idea from, but it sounded like it could be either really good, or really bad. Thanks for the reply!

soaring eagle said:

haha what?

running fingers through it in the shower will prevent dreading its the same as combing

and a wet bandana over your head all day every day will make even undreaded hair grow mildew and mold

im guessing he didnt have dreads?

An unusual method?

Dreading Methods

Hey all! I'm new here. First just a little background, I've been growing my hair out for the past five years, and ever since it first hit my shoulders, I've been told here and there I should get dreads. Never really took the advice to heart until now, and I think I'm going to give freeforms a try, but I got some interesting advice that I have never heard before.

A friend of mine said that there's another way of getting dreadlocks where you basically let them form freely, but in addition to standard natural dreading procedures, you keep a wet bandanna over it throughout the day every day for a couple weeks, and by the end you should have fairly well formed dreads. Also, he mentioned running your fingers through your hair in the shower to help separate them into locks. I have never heard of this method before, and with experience as to what my hair does at the end of a day when I've had it under a bandanna, I'm interested in trying it. Has anyone else heard of this before? Is it a bad idea?

updated by @patrick4: 01/13/15 09:58:09PM